This blog post contains spoilers for episode 4 of season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, so beware before reading on!
Monthly Archives: March 2016
The Library is Open: Episode 3
This blog post contains spoilers for episode 3 of season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The Library is Open
Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered on March 7. As the season airs, Drag Race fans enjoy speculating who will make it to the top three, rooting for their favorites. I’ve been diving into machine learning recently, and one of the biggest uses of machine learning is for prediction, and I thought it would be fun to try to apply a few machine learning algorithms to data about the 100 queens who have appeared on Drag Race to try to predict how season 8 might progress. This is inspired in no small part by Alex Hanna’s excellent survival analysis of season 5, and I use the data she collected, adding in seasons 6-8. If you haven’t read Alex’s posts about season 5, and are fans of both Drag Race and statistical analysis, I recommend checking it out before reading on.